kukaan

Finnish

Etymology

ku- + -kaan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkukɑːn/, [ˈkukɑ̝ːn]
  • Rhymes: -ukɑːn
  • Syllabification(key): ku‧kaan

Pronoun

kukaan

  1. (indefinite, chiefly in the negative) anybody, anyone; (with negative) no-one, none, nobody
    Kukaan ei halua sellaista tulevaisuutta lapsilleen.
    Nobody wants that kind of future for their children.
    Älkää puhuko tästä kenellekään!
    Don't talk to anyone about this!
    Tietääkö kukaan, missä se on?
    Does anybody know where it is?

Inflection

  • Like with kuka, there are two inflectional paradigms, and modern Finnish uses a mixture of the two; the nominative singular uses the stem ku- and all other forms use the stem kene-. The other forms, shown with parentheses in the table below, are considered old-fashioned. See kuka for more information.
  • The inflectional ending comes before the clitic -(ka)an.

Derived terms

polarity
pair
positive kukin
negative kukaan

Pronouns with same stems:

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